I saw an ad in a Mother Earth News magazine that explained how to make beer. The very first batch I produced turned out really good, so I figured I had a knack for it.
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Related The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited. CHANEL IMAN He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the ... RON REAGAN I was kind of by the 18-yard box. Mandy sent a really good ball to me, but I couldn't go with it. So... ALLY STROUP I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned... NORA EPHRON I told my mother everything.She explained the effect drugs would have on my body,how many brain cell... NICOLE KIDMAN I had about $4,000 to start it out with, and I wasn't about to buy a phone system, so I figured I'd ... MARK SPENCER I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was... ALAN GREENSPAN Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right. , QUOTED IN ASIAWEEK MAGAZINE I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell. BRANDON LEE I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Lu... DORA J. AROD I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d... CHANNING TATUM My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for th... DON RICKLES I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very u... PATTI SMITH I did a lot of practice diving at the Community (Park) pool. So I figured I'd go out for the team wh... JEFF HEINTZ For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydi... BRIDGET HALL What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsi... P.C. CAST As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain ty... BENJAMIN BOOKER I wasn't really discouraged. I mean, they're too good of a team not to make a run at us. Even though... DOUG GRESETH They had a very good showing. I think their comfort level is higher. They know each other a little m... RACHEL ELKINS We had settled down for a cozy Saturday evening, had a nice dinner, and I was just going to clean up... HALDIS GUNDERSEN It was something I wanted to do right away. I was so thrilled to be on the team. I knew I had a good... ANDREW KUECHLER I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this beha... CALEB CARR It was an April day and I went out into the garden and it had been raining during the night. I had t... ALBERT HOFMANN I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the result... NINA BAWDEN I really like baking, and I really like playing video games. I saw a few geeky baking blogs but I ne... ROSANNA PANSINO I've been kind of a smaller kid, so I figured if I was going to make it playing basketball, I'd have... DYLAN MCCUNE You're still here. No beer. I'm not corrupting a minor." "But you're a minor," she point... RACHEL CAINE It felt good to finally get a touchdown. When I caught it, I saw the linebacker go to my outside, so... DARREN SPROLES If I’d had any doubts about how Archer felt about me, they were eradicated when I saw the look on ... RACHEL HAWKINS The popup was in no man's land. I've got the largest glove, so I figured I would be the guy to catch... DARIN ERSTAD The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold hi... CASEY AFFLECK We must make love to find out how it’s made. I don’t know what the ingredients are, but I think ... JAROD KINTZ My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache... AJAY NAIDU It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothi... CHARLES LAMB I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual. MIA KIRSHNER My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my... TERRY WOGAN I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a thea... LARS MIKKELSEN I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said th... DICK DALE I was a little aggressive. My New Jersey rudeness came out a little. I just had the worst cotton-mou... CHRIS KENNY I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine. CAROL ALT Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma... BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su... I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema... I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p... I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o... I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de... I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru... I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re... I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo... I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then... I CHING He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie... I CHING Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a... ELIZABETH I Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish. FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you... ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e... ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. CHARLES I It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy... BAUDOUIN I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ... ELIZABETH I Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t... I CHING In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ... FAROUK I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. CHARLES I The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow. ELIZABETH I 'Twas God the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it,
And what the word did make i... ELIZABETH I
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